Posts Tagged ‘Insurance’
Jeremy Clarkson: Is there anyone honourable in government who’ll take on this deadly cladding disaster?
What a winter. America is teetering on the brink of civil war, a more infectious new strain of the virus has arrived from South Africa, we are all locked up like hedgehogs, Brexit is messing up food supplies to Northern Ireland and the normally placid state of Denmark has […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreNicola Sturgeon’s constituents in cladding insurance fight
More than 100 structures over 18 metres tall in Scotland are believed to have been clad with materials such as aluminium composite, which fuelled the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 Thousands of residents across Scotland, including in Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency, are fighting to insure their homes amid concerns over […] Click here to view original…
Read MorePost-Grenfell cladding inspections find other fire risks
image captionFlat owners have been organising fire safety checks Fire safety inspections have uncovered hundreds of blocks of flats in England and Wales with faulty or missing fire prevention measures, the BBC has found. Flat owners have been looking for evidence of unsafe cladding in the wake of the […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreWhy insurance is rising by up to 1,200 per cent for hundreds of thousands of people
Insurance is soaring for a lot of people Buildings insurance for hundreds of thousands of people has soared by huge amounts after the Grenfell Tower fire. The Times reports that research by the Association of Residential Management Agents shows the biggest rise in insurance was at a block in Peckham, southeast London, where last year’s…
Read MorePolicyholders see premiums jump nearly 800%
Owners of apartments with flammable cladding are facing an astronomical rise in insurance premiums in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, with some seeing prices jump nearly 800%. The situation comes as many providers are hesitant to provide cover on their own, opting instead to share risks with […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreThe next fire won’t wait. Here are the 10 steps to End Our Cladding Scandal
Inside Housing has joined with residents of buildings with dangerous cladding to call for the government to lead an “urgent, national effort” to end the scandal that has left tens of thousands of buildings nationwide clad in dangerous materials and residents asked to pay. With tens of thousands of […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreMy family died in Grenfell Tower fire tragedy – now I’m terrified for others living in deathtraps they can’t sell
EVERY time Nabil Choucair shuts his eyes, he’s haunted by the image of his family’s home – a flat on the 22nd floor of Grenfell Tower – going up in flames. Nabil, 46, lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law and his three young nieces aged 13, 10 and three in […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreThe dangers of living in lockdown in flats covered with flammable cladding
Ritu Saha, of Bromley in south London, is living in a building with flammable cladding during lockdown (Picture: Cladding Action Group) A woman living in a block of flats which could go up in flames at any moment has described how its residents feel ‘completely trapped’ during the coronavirus […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreCladding Action Groups on Radio 4 You and Yours consumer affairs programme
Insurance hikes of as much as 800 per cent hit architects hard
Architects have called for a radical overhaul of the market for professional indemnity insurance (PII) as they grapple with soaring costs, increased paperwork and tighter restrictions on building specifications The AJ has spoken to a number of practices which have faced difficulties renewing this cover, which protects them against […] Click here to view original…
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